Joomlaxi Team again introduce and implement a new idea in XIUS. The new innovation is named as "XiUS Privacy". It provides a privacy functionality to the Joomla Users with the searching information.

Brief Introduction of XiUS Privacy:

JoomlaXi promised you to provide couple of feature with JoomlaXi User Search. So, we are here with new feature by which administrator can decide accessibility criteria for Joomla Users group. The accessibility criteria are: Search-ability, Visibility and sort-ability. The setting of accessibility is named as "XiUS Privacy". XiUS Privacy provides confidential functionality with user search. If you wants that particular group users can search and see the respective information than you can set the criteria on the respective information. For example, If you want that employee information is only visible to registered users and only Manager can search through Salary information than XiUS Privacy feature fulfill your requirement. Add a comment

At JoomlaXi we are constantly implementing new ideas to add in the development process. We're proud to welcome a new innovation- XiUS Email. It is a new functionality in JoomlaXi User Search through which it is possible to send Email to selected users.

Brief Introduction of XiUS Email:

Over the last couple of weeks, we introduced several new capabilities in XiUS to fulfill searching needs and expectation. Here we come with  a new feature by which user can not only search users but can also send mail to filtered users. This mailing to users feature is named as "XiUS Email". XiUS Email is the most progressive and easy adaptive emailing functionality. By using XiUS Email, User can send mails to searched user. For example, If you want to send emails to users than you simply need to search users accordingly and you can easily send Emails to them individually in selected users as well as to whole group.

The most awaited feature of JoomlaXi User Search ( XIUS ) is implemented and its beta version is released. Beta version is only for testing purpose. Please do not use it directly on your live site. Currently Proximity work only if you are having the following entities.

• You must have a Geocoding table. This table will be used to get Latitude and Longitude of each user according to their address( Country, state, city or Zipcode). The table must contain following columns
  • Country ( Required )
  • State ( Optional )
  • City ( Required in case if Zipcode column is not there )
  • Zipcode ( Required in case if City column is not available in this table )
  • Latitude ( Required )
  • Longitude ( Required )

• You also need to create information of of following fields so that user can be searched according to given inputs.
  • Country (Required)
  • State ( optional )
  • City ( Required in case if Zipcode information is not there)
  • Zipcode ( Required in case if City information is not available in this table)

How to Configure Plugin Params

For this version of Proximity search, you need to configure as follows

• Select the value I have Geocoding Table in the param named User's Encoding Through.
• Then set the respective information with respective parameter. For e.g. select City information for City column etc.
• Give the Geocoding table name and column names in their respective fields.
• Save the Information.

How to search

For searching users from an particular location. User will be having a link in search panel named Set Location. By clicking over this link, a google map map will appear. User can select any location from this map. After selecting the location close the map and give the distance, from which user must be searched.

The core code have been implemented for proximity search, now we are coding user interface.
We will try to give nightly code access to Beta Testers for next beta release. If you want to be a beta tester (contact us via contact-us page).

Brief Introduction of Proximity Search:

Proximity search is very flexible, this flexibility comes via XiUS architecture.
It can use given database for geocoding, or it can calculate geocode via google api.

#1 : This is a plugin, it will work same way as other XIUS plugin works (you need to create information of proximity type, to use this functionality)

#2 : Finding User's location : Plugin need to get user's location, it can be done in 2 ways.
2-A : Create information which can tell user's Address (Zip/State/City/Country)
2-B : Second way is via Geocodes (Latitude/Longitude) information of users already stored. (JS 1.8 stores this information)

#3 : Define Geomapping Database : It can be achieve in three ways
3-A : You have a database by which we can calculate Geocodes from User's Address
3-B : If you have user's Geocode store in some table, then no need of geocoding.
3-C : we calculate user's geocode from Google Api (which have restriction of 2400 calls per day)

#4 : Once above 3 steps are done, we will present location selector on frontend,
4-A : It can be a google map to select location
4-B : It can be zipcode and country
4-C : It can be city/state/country

#5 : A distance Input is also shown to select users proximity to given location.

#6 : Search result will contain distance of users on their profile.

Please provide your feedback on above functionality.

Thanks
Team JoomlaXi